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Thursday, 24 December 2009 09:12 |
Amateur film, made about 50 years ago, where the "icon" of Hollywood Marilyn Monroe is smoking marijuana, was sold for 275 thousand dollars. The picture was sold to a collector of historical photographs, manuscripts, autographs and other documents Morgan Kay from the operator who wished to remain anonymous, and now wants to exhibit its fragments at the auction, RIA Novosti reports.
Color film is without sound, recorded on reel tape was shot presumably in 1958 - 1959 years in a private house in New Jersey, where Monroe was having a good time with her friends. Actress on the film looks very happy and relaxed. "This is a late 50's, so she was already very popular and well known, but we have never seen these people around. People have never seen her in so relaxed pose" - told Kay Morgan.
Monroe is holding just a simple cigarette in her hand, but a friend of the actress who shot the film, says that she was smoking marijuana. Operator even admitted that he gave her the drug: "I also smoked (fat pappy). It was mine. It just passed circle-wise. It was not a party. Just meeting - come and have fun.
Morgan, who has been collecting historical photographs, manuscripts, autographs and other documents, has promised that he would put pieces of the movie on internet auction site eBay.
Monroe died from a lethal dose of sleeping pills in August 1962 at the age of 36, while at the zenith of fame. There are several versions of the death of celebrity, including murder.
Recently a place near the grave of Marilyn Monroe was put up at the auction. It was vacated after the widow of a man buried there had decided to transport the remains of her husband to another place.
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